Big Game Hunters Mud Kitchen with Working Tap – Kid’s Wooden Outdoor Play Kitchen

Product Information

Key specs: Size: 110.5 x 43 x 90.5 cm | Material: Wood | Accessories included: Large splash tub | Age suitability: 18 months and over | Assembly time: Unspecified What we love: Mud kitchens encourage imaginative, creative play using natural materials, where there are no rules on staying clean and tidy. So, they're ideal for both kids and parents. What is a mud kitchen?

Key specs: Size: H x 105; W x 93.5; D x 52.5 cm | Material: Untreated wood | Accessories included: 8 stainless steel utensils | Age suitability: Three years and over | Assembly time: One hour plus What we love: The Chad Valley Wooden Mud Kitchen is an attractive toy with rustic styling and thoughtful features. It has two small metal sinks that can be removed easily for draining and cleaning and are great for two children playing together side by side. We would suggest when you have your choices narrowed down, show your child pictures and see which one they engage with. This isn’t of course a requirement for surprise presents! For children, the summer holidays are all about playing outdoors with their toys. Kids love getting grubby in the garden, digging in the soil, collecting leaves and generally enjoying the freedom of playing outside — and a mud kitchen is one way to allow them to safely explore this urge.It allows kids to get messy and have fun in the garden, where the mess doesn't matter so much for parents! Key specs: Size: 31 x 55 x 56 cm | Material: Wood | Accessories included: starter set of stainless steel pans with mixing whisk | Age suitability: Three years and over | Assembly time: Unspecified What we love: We are commonly asked to recommend our mud kitchens based on age ranges. However, it is much more important to consider their height. Use a tape measure to establish a suitable playing surface height for your child. just above their elbow is a good starting point - this means there’s room to grow, although if they are taller (or a sibling is) they won’t ‘lose out’ if they are a bit taller! Create a rough sketch of your design before you start, carefully considering the size and shape of your mud kitchen to ensure you have enough space. Connects kids with nature: It's hard to care about things that you're not really involved with, and many kids these days spend more time glued to their screens than out-of-doors. But getting kids outside to play, act out make-believe worlds, and explore, creates happy memories with the one most primal element in our world: nature. Along with that comes a development of respect and understanding for the great outdoors.

Look at the overall dimensions of the product and most importantly the surface height. It’s not going to be much fun if your child is eye level with the sink (for example)!

Sponsored by

As the mother of two children, Erin and Neve, our writer Lucy was determined to provide honest and independent advice on the fantastic mud kitchens your little ones will love using. Mud kitchens are a great way of encouraging imaginative play in your kids. We have mud kitchens with working taps & sinks, our splash & play range. This range comes with their very own mud kitchen water dispensers & a working tap, adding extra play value. We have small mud kitchens for toddlers and larger garden mud kitchens for older children. Our mud kitchens come with pots & pans as accessories for little chefs looking to create messy mud masterpieces.

Key specs: Size: 79 x 68 x 30 cm | Material: Wood | Accessories included: Metal bowl and 2 x Pots | Age suitability: 3 years and over | Assembly time: Unspecified What we love:

Cupboards and Storage So you are buying the kitchen as a fun play experience for your child. Have you considered the practical storage solution this can offer to you and your family as somewhere to keep all their little play bits? All the pots and pans, cups, chalk, watering cans and anything else that may otherwise be strewn around your lawn? Having shelves and/or cupboards in your mud kitchen can keep your garden or play area much tidier than it once was. So this is not just for the kids after all. Having lots of places to put all their bits and pieces right inside their play kitchen also means it is much much easier for them to find everything they need when they are outside playing - win win! Chat to your child about what they'd like to see in their mud kitchen but remember they can add their own extras and that's all part of the creative play.

Your child may have siblings or friends over to play with the kitchen so make sure you take the time to give this some thought. Age suitability: Most mud kitchens are suitable from three years of age, though a few come without accessories that suggest it would be ok from 18 months. Look at the height measurement in the product dimensions to ensure it will suit each of your children. We have the TP Muddy Madness one. It has an oven, a hob, a mini water butt and a sink. Bugger to build but looks great and my daughter loves it. Very sturdy and has taken a beating but still looks great.” (Recommended by Mumsnet user Debbiewest0) Our verdict How much you spend on a mud kitchen depends on your budget and what features you require in a mud kitchen. This is ours... Still going strong 3 years later” (Recommended by Mumsnet user purpleme12) Our verdict

3. Best value mud kitchen: Toyrific Playhouse Marvellous Mud Kitchen

A mud kitchen is essentially about cooking up grubby fun. Your kids can sauté leaves, oven-bake mud pies and wash up after your garden gnomes have devoured the meal. A mud kitchen is a play kitchen to be used outside, where children can use their imaginations to role-play and pretend to cook.